U.W. SWANSEA GERMAN RESEARCH SEMINAR - Winter 02
MONDAYS AT 3 till 5 in room KH 302
all welcome
OCTOBER 14
Peter James (Northumbria)
"The 2002 German Elections: Issues and Implications"
Peter James's books include *Modern Germany: Politics, Society and Culture*
(1998) and *The Politics of Bavaria: An Exception to the Rule* (1995).
OCTOBER 28
Henk de Berg (Sheffield)
"Freud's Theory as Social Critique:
Psychoanalysis and "l'affaire Dutroux""
Henk de Berg's *Freud's Theory and Its Use in Literary and Cultural Studies:
An Introduction* is out soon.
NOVEMBER 4
Mike Joseph (Cardiff): title t.b.a.
Third annual talk about Mike's ongoing research into the Nazi murder of his
mother's family - Jewish furriers from Leipzig.
NOVEMBER 11
Wini Davies (Aberystwyth)
"The concept of Sprachkultur in Germany"
Wini Davies is a specialist in Critical Language Awareness and is involved
in a EU-funded project on Language Awareness in Intercultural Contexts.
NOVEMBER 25
Osman Durrani (Kent)
"The Iconicity of Faust"
Illustrated talk; quotations in English. Professor Durrani's research
interests range from contemporary German pop music, cabaret, and GDR rock
music, to Romanticism, Goethe, Kafka, German historical novels and
'university novels'.
DECEMBER 9
Karoline von Oppen (Bath): title t.b.a.
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